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History on the 4th of October 1941

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04 Oct 1941 WW2 German submarine U-129 picked up 119 survivors of German supply ship Klara, sunken by British cruiser HMS Kenya on the previous day, 300 miles northeast of the Azores islands. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Lady Shirley forced German submarine U-111 to the surface with depth charges 225 miles west of Tenerife, Canary Islands. U-111's crew scuttled the submarine after a brief gunfire exchange; U-111 suffered 8 killed and 44 captured, while HMS Lady Shirley suffered 1 killed. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British anti-submarine trawler HMS Whippet was sunk by German bombing 30 miles north of Bardia, Libya, killing 1. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British submarine HMS Talisman sank French ship Theophile Gautier in a convoy from Crete to the Greek mainland. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 The Jager Report (issued on 1 Dec 1941) noted that 432 adult male, 1,115 adult female, and 436 children, all Jews, were killed in Vilnius, Lithuania for a total of 1,983 people. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 Friedrich Knackfuss was named the civilian administrator of the Channel Islands. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 US Navy awarded a contract to build Dock No. 4 and a 20,000-kilowatt bomb-proof power plant at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 German Panzergruppe 3 and Panzergruppe 4 began to surround rear elements of the Soviet Western Front in Russia, capturing Kirov and Spa-Demensk in the process. The German troops continued to advance toward Vyasma to complete the envelopment. 
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04 Oct 1941 WW2 British motor torpedo boat MTB56 and Norwegian destroyer Draug arrived at the Shetland Islands, Scotland, United Kingdom. 
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